Lucy Liu Quotes
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.
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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I have only one sister, Asha Nanda, and she lives in Maharani Bagh.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.
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I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
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They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
